Google ToolBar PageRank is FAKE!?

Filed in: Google — January 15th, 2008

Google PageRank 10Apparently, Google is updating the PageRank for the first time in 2008. As always, many webmasters are talking about the increase or decrease of their websites’ PageRank.

In case you are curious, you can check your website’s pagerank at different datacenters at DigPagerank.

However, some discovered that Google Directory has different PageRank values for each website than the Google Toolbar PageRank. Some previously PageRank penalized websites still keep the high PR in Google Directory.

Meaning, Google might use fake data for the PageRank on Google toolbar!

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  • http://www.hongkiat.com/blog hongkiat

    Yea, I think that’s how things was. I discussed with some SEO gurus previously and what they come to agree is that Google should be “hiding” your real PR and throw you with a PR0 or penalized value so you cant sell links. Your content are actually still indexed.

    It’s not really a “fake” value in Google Toolbar, rather your “public” PR value.

  • http://www.hongkiat.com hongkiat

    Yea, I think that’s how things was. I discussed with some SEO gurus previously and what they come to agree is that Google should be “hiding” your real PR and throw you with a PR0 or penalized value so you cant sell links. Your content are actually still indexed.

    It’s not really a “fake” value in Google Toolbar, rather your “public” PR value.

  • http://cikenz.blogspot.com/ ciken

    i have 2 blog decrease..lol..

  • http://cikenz.blogspot.com ciken

    i have 2 blog decrease..lol..

  • http://www.goalcentre.com/ goalcentre.com

    My blog still Page Rank 0
    Weird… :(

  • http://www.goalcentre.com goalcentre.com

    My blog still Page Rank 0
    Weird… :(

  • http://blogulp.blogspot.com/ blogulp buddy

    This is the first thing I heard about this. Is it true. Hm..

  • http://blogulp.blogspot.com/ blogulp buddy

    This is the first thing I heard about this. Is it true. Hm..

  • http://sweetsurrender.99.com.my/ Irene

    Google is bad! Very bad boy. Sigh… Oh… Thanks for tipping me :) Hehehe… I got my irenelaw.com PR back to 3 after submitting for reconsideration because it’s free from paid posts and ad selling. However, Sweet Surrender is still stucked at PR0, can’t do anything much…

  • http://sweetsurrender.99.com.my Irene

    Google is bad! Very bad boy. Sigh… Oh… Thanks for tipping me :) Hehehe… I got my irenelaw.com PR back to 3 after submitting for reconsideration because it’s free from paid posts and ad selling. However, Sweet Surrender is still stucked at PR0, can’t do anything much…

  • http://ahtim.com/ AhTim

    Either fake or not, we have to follow the game rules. :)

    –blog for dream–

  • http://ahtim.com AhTim

    Either fake or not, we have to follow the game rules. :)

    –blog for dream–

  • http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2008/01/i-lost-my-pr/ Apple

    Got mine penalized T_T

  • http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2008/01/i-lost-my-pr/ Apple

    Got mine penalized T_T

  • http://labunda.net/ terry

    I would agree with Ah Tim :)

  • http://labunda.net terry

    I would agree with Ah Tim :)

  • http://labunda.net/ terry

    I tested with DigPagerank and mine was the same. So i guess not all PR are hidden :p

  • http://labunda.net terry

    I tested with DigPagerank and mine was the same. So i guess not all PR are hidden :p

  • http://www.ontechnews.com/ Alvin Nyau

    Maybe google is doing something BIG behind, we wait for it to be revealed. However, my site which just started on 1st of Jan is still having a grey-in-colour PageRank. Good Luck!

    Alvin.

  • http://www.ontechnews.com Alvin Nyau

    Maybe google is doing something BIG behind, we wait for it to be revealed. However, my site which just started on 1st of Jan is still having a grey-in-colour PageRank. Good Luck!

    Alvin.

  • http://AdsenseForDummies.com/ AdsenseForDummies.com

    PR is important to webmasters who are selling spaces for advertisements.

    Many of my websites are having zero PR with low traffic (averaging 50/day mostly from the US) but I’m making enough Adsense earnings to pay my bills.

    Apparently to get higher PR one needs to be sneaky (using aggressive SEO tools like RSS Equalizer, Traffic Equalizer, ArticleBot, Kloakit, Ad Network, Link Vault, etc.)

    Read more at http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/01/15/time-to-be-sneaky/

  • http://AdsenseForDummies.com AdsenseForDummies.com

    PR is important to webmasters who are selling spaces for advertisements.

    Many of my websites are having zero PR with low traffic (averaging 50/day mostly from the US) but I’m making enough Adsense earnings to pay my bills.

    Apparently to get higher PR one needs to be sneaky (using aggressive SEO tools like RSS Equalizer, Traffic Equalizer, ArticleBot, Kloakit, Ad Network, Link Vault, etc.)

    Read more at http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/01/15/time-to-be-sneaky/

  • http://www.homewithandrew.com/ Andrew

    HongKiat is correct. PR fluctuates on a daily basis. It is just one of many (maybe hundreds of ) values that make up its SERP algorithms. So it’s not “fake”, but rather a “snapshot” of one particular datacenter (of which Google also has many).

  • http://www.homewithandrew.com Andrew

    HongKiat is correct. PR fluctuates on a daily basis. It is just one of many (maybe hundreds of ) values that make up its SERP algorithms. So it’s not “fake”, but rather a “snapshot” of one particular datacenter (of which Google also has many).

  • http://grafixmalaya.blogspot.com/ ajacx

    my blog also got it first page rank…i don t know

  • http://grafixmalaya.blogspot.com ajacx

    my blog also got it first page rank…i don t know

  • http://www.goalcentre.com/ goalcentre.com

    Mine still 0 woh…
    Dont know how

  • http://www.goalcentre.com goalcentre.com

    Mine still 0 woh…
    Dont know how

  • http://limadang.com/ limadang.com

    I see this is an ongoing process. I get all my new three blog PR2 from 0 i don’t know if this is a permanent basis.

    Whatever it is this might a game from google kill PP industry

  • http://limadang.com limadang.com

    I see this is an ongoing process. I get all my new three blog PR2 from 0 i don’t know if this is a permanent basis.

    Whatever it is this might a game from google kill PP industry

  • http://apregnantpause.net/ KittyCat

    Hi! I hope this is true as I’ve just lost my 4/10 on my blogspot blog! Just as I’ve become a stay-at-home Mum and hoping to earn some $$$, this happened. I don’t understand it and I’m worried of losing my private domain’s 3/10 rank now…

    But I don’t earn anything from Adsense and get more from PPP – shud I stop PPP then to earnback my PageRank? But that means earning nothing! So depressing

  • http://apregnantpause.net KittyCat

    Hi! I hope this is true as I’ve just lost my 4/10 on my blogspot blog! Just as I’ve become a stay-at-home Mum and hoping to earn some $$$, this happened. I don’t understand it and I’m worried of losing my private domain’s 3/10 rank now…

    But I don’t earn anything from Adsense and get more from PPP – shud I stop PPP then to earnback my PageRank? But that means earning nothing! So depressing

  • LcF

    @KittyCat: frankly, I do not recommend PPP.

  • LcF

    @KittyCat: frankly, I do not recommend PPP.

  • http://www.goalcentre.com/ goalcentre.com

    Why you dont recommend PPP? What’s the reason liew?

  • http://www.goalcentre.com goalcentre.com

    Why you dont recommend PPP? What’s the reason liew?

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